Originally Posted by
star_world
I am completely opposed to using any program that requires itself to be continually running in the background for AV / security. I haven't run any in at least 5 years and have never once found anything even remotely suspicious on any Windows PC I run.
Which is quite different from not having a nice collection of nasty stuff on the hard drive, of course
But you have a point in the fact that you COULD have a nice collection of nasty malware even with a continuously running AV.